Patents by Inventor Erik McCallum

Erik McCallum has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and system for resource management in a computing environment
    Patent number: 8266277
    Abstract: A method and system for monitoring resources in a network of resources in a computing environment, is provided. One implementation involves discovering resources in the network; constructing a topology model including event information for each discovered resource; providing queries for polling the models for event information, such that the resources need not be polled; executing one or more queries against one or more models; evaluating the query results to ascertain whether or not an event has affected what is considered to be normal for the result of each query; and presenting the evaluation results to enable monitoring of the resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew E. Duggan, Daniel J. Martin, Erik McCallum
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20100332645
    Abstract: A method and system for monitoring resources in a network of resources in a computing environment, is provided. One implementation involves discovering resources in the network; constructing a topology model including event information for each discovered resource; providing queries for polling the models for event information, such that the resources need not be polled; executing one or more queries against one or more models; evaluating the query results to ascertain whether or not an event has affected what is considered to be normal for the result of each query; and presenting the evaluation results to enable monitoring of the resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew E. Duggan, Daniel J. Martin, Erik McCallum